Christmas Break!

We returned home from a 10 day stay in Indiana this past Monday night.  I feel so behind with the blog - we have been incredibly busy and finally are getting settled back into our daily routine.  We had such a wonderful time in Indiana for our holiday vacation and have so many great pictures to share.  This year we stayed with Grammy and Grandpa since last year we stayed with Grandma and T for Christmas and New Year's.  It was a really fun Christmas since Sonoma is starting to learn all about the holiday and definitely loved opening all of her presents.  The holidays are starting to get really magical again :)

"HOT!"

Wilbur & Sonoma are becoming pretty good buddies

 We went over to Grandma & T's house on Christmas Eve morning to celebrate Christmas with them and Uncle David and Auntie Carrie, who were in town from Atlanta.  We opened presents and then had a big Christmas brunch.

Opening her stocking with T & Grandma

She LOVES her new table and chairs - will be perfect in her new playroom!

Auntie C, Grandma & Sonoma

We all met Scout for the first time - Sonoma loved him!

Twins in their purple and red!

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS to Auntie C who is pregnant with her first baby & due right around Sonoma's birthday!  She looked so fantastic & Sonoma is really excited to have her FIRST cousin!

On Christmas Eve night we hosted the annual Christmas Eve party with Grammy's side of the family.

Grandpa, Grammy, Auntie K & Sonoma

Auntie K helping Sonoma open a present

Sonoma with her Great-Grampy.  

Ready for bed in our matching Christmas pjs after the party!

Picture with Grammy's side of the family


Christmas morning....

Sonoma loved her kitchen from Santa!  She was so excited!

Tearing open her gifts!

Having a little tantrum

All she wanted to do was walk Wilbur

Love this picture

 At noon on Christmas we went over to Great-Grandma & Great-Grandpa's house for another Christmas party!

Great-Grandpa & Great-Granmda

She was really into cousin Ethan's truck toys

We all took so many great pictures of  Sonoma over the last couple of weeks:

Getting into Grandma's drawers

Boxes have never been so much fun

Being silly with Grammy

This girl loves her milk

Family Christmas photo with Grandpa's side of the family

Kissing Wilbur

Playing Super Nintendo with Grandpa & Wilbur

We were so excited to spend some time with our good friends David & Rejni & their adorable little son, Giacomo.

They played so well together!

Love this!!

Family New Year's Eve photo before Marcus and I went out for the evening:

After a really wonderful trip back home, we stopped in Carmel on our way to Chicago and visited our dear friends the Ertels.  It just happened to be Riley's 2nd birthday, so we stayed for pizza & cake and a great time catching up and seeing their new, sweet baby, Lyla.

Helping Riley open his gifts

Birthday Boy!

Holding little Lyla

Best friends for 6 years!

Love this family

We are so grateful that we were able to ring in the new year with our friends and family back home in Indiana.  We are very excited for 2012 and hoping that it is a much happier, healthier year for our family!